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Show llrnr-a Aildreaa lo III. Atmr. Beot. w ha ha. ' Wallace Hli ' Scota, wham Ilrucc haa often led; Welcome to your gory bed, Or to victory' Now' the. day. and now'a tho hour, fee the front o' battle lower; Be approach proud ndward'a power; Chalna and alavcryl Wha will be a traitor knavot Wha can fill a coward's grave? Let him turn and fleet I Wha for Scotland's King and law. Freedom' aword will strongly draw, Freeraan'a stand, or freeman fa', Let him follow me! By oppression's woea and paint! Ily your sons In lervll chalnsl We will drain our dearest vclna, But they ahall be free! Lay the proud usurpers low! Tyranta fall In every foe! Liberty's In every blowl Ltt u do, or die! Ilobcrt Ilurni. Sfallntial KoMlm Cm "!' Tho soldier of Japan hat been a revelation, rev-elation, lie Is a pocket edition of n man, but when It cornea to playing nt war he la a full-sited Individual. He la In the gamo because ho likes It, Just aa ho aecma lo live for the fun of tho thing Ills ability to go without food on the march la phenomenal, bla recu-peralho recu-peralho power remarkable, and hla ability to withstand hardships wondrous. won-drous. Should ho rail III he It taken to a model army hospital, but he seldom sel-dom falls III, becntiao of tho thorough preparations he hns made for tho campaign cam-paign and tho great efllclency of hla commissariat and transport. "Tommy "Tom-my Atkins," aa one sees him In China, needs rejuvenating. Ho needs to bo shaken up. Ho Is too often recruited from tho slums of the cities rather than from tho healthful country districts dis-tricts of his land Ilctwcn him and his orflccr Is a gulf ao wide as to prohibit pro-hibit any sort of Intimacy Ills officers never underttand Tommy, and Tommy baa no conception of tho real qualities of hla officers In eight cases out of ten I the officer Is a flrst-rnto polo .player. and cricketer, a gentleman' born and bred, and little else. Ho thinks of his own comfort first, of the comfort of hla hone next, and of Tommy last. If at all. Tommy It handicapped by obso-lete obso-lete army regulations, by nrlstocratlc and Incompetent offlccra nnd by n constantly con-stantly Increasing conceit, Tho American Am-erican soldier Is supremely confident that he Is as good aa nnybody on earth nnd Is not nYcrso to saying so Next to hla confldenco In himself Is his undaunted un-daunted confldrnco In America nnd In the American army Nobody but an American could successfully command such a body of men. Ilach soldier Is a born lawyer and orator; each aoldler fsela personally responsible for tho defects de-fects In evidence, nnd each endeavors on his own behalf to settla not only the affair of his comrade and hla company and his regiment, but of his country nnd other countrlea aa well. He Is n troubletomo party In camp, but when ho comes Into competition with others he Is pretty turo to acquit hlmoelf woll, He Is officered by a body of men whu as a rule are capable. About two out of every ten of them are born gentle-men, gentle-men, a much larger percentage are self-made self-made gentlemen, and nearly all are good fellows, Theso officers prldo themselves them-selves on their democracy. They speak of one another nt soldiers, not officers, and boast that their quarters and their fare are little batter than those of tho men In tho ranka. They study their men. They live as they do do what they do and consequently can comprehend compre-hend their needs and aympathlto In their privations. It Is this close connection con-nection between officers and men that It the great strength of the American army. The soldier of "the States" Is tho best paid and best fed soldlor In the world. He recclvea 50 times aa much as docs hla Illusion comrade, but he Is not different from any other soldier lt that he spends It all on pay day If he can The next day he has remorse. Ho Is human, after all. Ills uniform Is not beautiful, but It Is business-like. He has practically no followers, fol-lowers, nnd thercforo his uniform la especially adapted to his multitudinous duties. No man Is above doing the meanest work In tho camp and each thinks himself capable of commanding H a corpa I Shared All with " rUm). Kalthfut to the friend of his youth, for whom he lived a life of self-denial, Lieutenant Commander Leonard Ctic- nory died the other day Some of bis B fsllow officers, members of the Naval M Alumni association, met last Thursday night at the University club nnd placed on tho minutes of their society" a trio- ute to the memory of one w hose nooll- Ity of character they knew so well, saya the New York Herald. As a boy Leonard Chenery. then struggling for H recognition, was befriended by a wan who did much tn air him The klnd- t ' Tt or wan neer fnf-i fnf-i ibI iiffl. r and yirt ' wl n lil friend was Inripj 1 f'ir rk and was reduced to J" t n th. liMtfnant cemmander '" " ! tli I lenrned of hi prdlca in nf Th. piy of a lleutennnt com "i i U r on th. retired list Is not large. The iiHval officer wat himself not In .l health yet ho shared what he had wlih the friend of his early days, supported Is declining je-irs and helped his family It a, A ,tory ,ll(,n j, ne(.r told Only a few of his Intimate friends knew It ct year after year he cheerfully bore his double burden. Tho name of the man whom the lieutenant commander repaid Is withheld, for friends of the naval officer wish that It ho not made public This Is the eulogy adopted by the Naval alumnt. "We have heard with profound sorrow of the death of Lieutenant Commander Leonard Chenery, and, In seeking expression ex-pression for our scnto of lost, feel that no formal statement, collectively made, enn fitly set clown the personal grlet this engenders Many of ua knew him with high honors In his class; others wero his shipmates and messmates an various nations and all have witnessed In late yeara hit patlencs under grievous griev-ous physical sufferings caused by exposure ex-posure and hardships In tho lino of duty All of us can bear affectionate testimony to tho bravo and kindly spirit that became even braver nnd nobler as the end drew near. Wo ro-call ro-call with honest pride the stern aenso of duty that during tho Spanish war kept him at hla post, despite physical ailments which mado ecry day end In all but hclnless exhaustion Slnco his death wo havo learned n ttory of tender ten-der charity and of ennobling self-sacrifice that ho hid from tho world, but for which the world la better. To all his friends and these wero all who knew- him ho leaves the cxamplo of n hero and the loving memory of a true sillor." Lieutenant Commander Cbo-nery Cbo-nery waa admitted to the naval academy aca-demy tn 1861 Ho was graduated In 1SCS, nnd subsequently served on tho Swatara and on the I'ensirula. He waa once commandant of tho Maro Island navy yard and was for n year connected with tho United State by-drogruphlc by-drogruphlc office Ho waa retired in 18S1. In the war with Spain he waa n recruiting officer. Ilcnjsmln llarrlaon'a Ills. Ills' Harrison waa ao devout a church member that many persons bnio refused re-fused to believe that ho had ever been profane.. Only ono Instnnce Is recalled, and that Is substantiated, like a corresponding corre-sponding Incident la Ocorgo Washington's Washing-ton's career, by the teatlmony of ear-witnesses. ear-witnesses. It wns In the Atlanta campaign cam-paign In ISC I, when, na colonel of the Seventieth Indiana oluntccrs, he took n conspicuous part In the battlo of I'cach Trco Creek. The regiment waa lying under cover, with atrlct orders to hold Its fire until tho command was given. One man, too excited and nervous nerv-ous to lie still, sprang up and fired. Col. Harrison seized his blanket, which was dono up In n roll and fastcnol with a strnp, and Jumping up, hurled It nt tho excltablo aoldler, at tho aame time shouting out a loud, hearty, ro tund "Damn!" The blanket struck tho soldier full In tho tare, and tlther that, or tho unexpectedness of the profane word from his exemplary colonel, laid him fiat on his back, ready to obey orders or-ders for the rest of tho campaign Profanity seemed to bo In tho air that day. for Oen. Hooker riding down the lino after tho fight, seized the young colonel's hand and wrung It as he shouted: "Harrison, by O .I'll make you a brlgadler-gencrnl for this!" And he waa aa good as his word. Dotton Etcnlng Transcript, Nil MMItl. Not to CruUii. Indlffoicnceon the part of tho naval mllltla of tho Atlantic and Pacific states, It Is said, will prevent any of the organizations from taking the usual crulto during tho coming summer. sum-mer. Such drills as may occur w.111 be limited to the regular exercises held by each organization on board the ship assigned to It by the government. Abandonment of the cruise pn a regular regu-lar man-of-war Is due chiefly to tho lack of Interest shown In tha service last summer, when tho I'ralrle waa na-signed na-signed to tako tho naval mllltla of tho Atlantic and gulf ttatea to sea, and to tho failure of any of the organizations to rcqueat that the ship be assigned to them for cruising purposes this summer. sum-mer. The only section which displays Interest In naval instruction is on tho great lakes, nnd upon the request of tho militia organizations of Illinois, Michigan and Ohio, the Michigan baa been directed to take them out for In-atructlon. In-atructlon. riotl,l. to N.v.l Atplranta. A now departure la announced from tho navy department In the final examination ex-amination of naval cadets who havo completed the two years at sea previous pre-vious to final graduation. Instructions havo been sent to tho commander-in-chief of tho North Atlantic station to conduct thcoo examinations In tho squadron Instead of, aa heretofore, at Annapolis. This Is looked upon aa favorable to tho aspirants for naval commissions |